Beatrice

Tavernier's follow-up to the internationally successful ROUND MIDNIGHT is the director's most challenging work in a career that has included such brilliant, idiosyncratic films as SUNDAY IN THE COUNTRY and the Oscar-nominated COUP DE TORCHON. Continuing Tavernier's interest in generational conflict and his predilection for setting timeless stories in very specific historical periods, BEATRICE, set in 14th-century France, tells the story of the relationship between a feudal lord who returns from the One Hundred Years War a bitter, sadistic man (Donnadieu) and his pure-hearted daughter, the title character (Delpy). For four long years Delpy has anxiously awaited her ...